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Item 1. Security and Issuer

     This statement on Schedule 13D (this “Statement”) relates to the common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), of Vastera, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Vastera”). Vastera’s principal executive offices are located at 45025 Aviation Drive, Suite 300, Dulles, Virginia 20166.

Item 2. Identity and Background

     This Statement is being filed by Ford Motor Company, a Delaware corporation (“Ford”). Ford’s principal executive offices are located at One American Road, Dearborn, Michigan 48126. Ford is a manufacturing company whose principal business is the design, manufacture, assembly and sale of cars and trucks. Ford and its subsidiaries also engage in other businesses, including financing and renting vehicles and equipment. The name, business address, present principal occupation or employment and citizenship of each director and executive officer of Ford are set forth on Schedule I.

     Neither Ford nor, to the knowledge of Ford, any of its directors or executive officers has been convicted during the last five years in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and similar misdemeanors). Neither Ford nor, to the knowledge of Ford, any of its directors or executive officers has during the last five years been party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and as a result of such a proceeding was or is subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, federal or state securities laws or finding any violations with respect to such laws.

Item 3. Source and Amount of Funds and Other Consideration

     Ford acquired its shares of the Common Stock before Vastera’s initial public offering in September 2000. With respect to such ownership, Ford has previously filed a Schedule 13G pursuant to Rule 13d-1(d).

     The Voting Agreement described in Item 4 of this Statement (the terms of which are hereby incorporated by reference) was entered into by Ford and JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, a national banking association (“JPMorgan Chase Bank”), as an inducement for JPMorgan Chase Bank to enter into the Agreement and Plan of Merger described in Item 4 of this Statement. Ford did not receive additional consideration from JPMorgan Chase Bank in connection with the execution and delivery of the Voting Agreement.

Item 4. Purpose of Transaction

     This Statement has been made because Ford has entered into a Voting Agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank as an inducement for JPMorgan Chase Bank to enter into the Agreement and Plan of Merger (as described below). Thus, Ford may be deemed to hold its shares of the Common Stock with a purpose or effect of changing or influencing control of Vastera. Ford, however, does not concede that it holds its shares of the Common Stock with such a purpose or effect.

     Pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger dated January 6, 2005, between and among Vastera, JPMorgan Chase Bank, and JPM Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Merger Agreement”), upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement (including adoption and approval of the transactions contemplated thereby by the stockholders of Vastera and the receipt of applicable regulatory approvals), JPM Merger Sub Inc. will be merged with and into Vastera, the separate corporate existence of JPM Merger Sub Inc. will cease, and Vastera will continue as the surviving corporation (the “Merger”).

     In connection with the Merger Agreement, and in order to induce JPMorgan Chase Bank to enter into the Merger Agreement, JPMorgan Chase Bank and certain stockholders of Vastera (the “Stockholders”), including Ford, entered into Voting Agreements dated as of January 6, 2005 (the “Voting Agreements”). Pursuant to the Voting Agreements, each of the Stockholders, including Ford, agreed that at any meeting of Vastera’s stockholders called to vote upon the Merger and the Merger Agreement, or in any other circumstances upon which approval of the Merger and the Merger Agreement is sought from Vastera’s stockholders, the Stockholders will vote their shares of the Common Stock in favor of the approval of the Merger and the approval and adoption of the Merger Agreement. The Stockholders agreed not to enter into any agreement or commitment with any person the effect of which would be inconsistent with or violative of the Voting Agreements. The Stockholders also irrevocably appointed two individuals as such Stockholder’s proxy and attorney-in-fact solely to vote their shares of the Common Stock or act by written consent before termination of the Merger Agreement. The Stockholders further agreed not to, directly or indirectly, transfer, encumber, or otherwise dispose of any or all of their shares of Common Stock, or enter into any other voting arrangement, with respect to their shares of the Common Stock, in any manner that is inconsistent with the Voting Agreements.

     A copy of the Voting Agreement by and between Ford and JPMorgan Chase Bank is attached to this Statement as Exhibit 2.1, and the description of the Voting Agreement contained in this Statement is qualified in its entirety by reference to Exhibit 2.1 which is incorporated by reference.

Item 5. Interest in Securities of the Issuer

      As a result of the Voting Agreement, Ford has shared power to vote an aggregate of 8,000,000¹ shares of the Common Stock and has agreed with JPMorgan Chase Bank that Ford will vote its shares of the Common Stock as described in Item 4 above. The Voting Agreement also provides that Ford will not transfer its shares of the Common Stock as described in Item 4 above. The aggregate number of shares of Common Stock which Ford has the shared power to be voted as described in Item 4 above constitutes approximately 18.9% of the issued and outstanding shares of Vastera Common Stock as of January 3, 2005 which, according to representations made by Vastera in the Merger Agreement, was 42,248,756 shares.

     Except as set forth on this Statement, neither Ford nor, to the knowledge of Ford, any of its directors or executive officers, beneficially owns any other shares of the Common Stock.

      Ford has not affected any transaction in the Common Stock during the past 60 days, except as disclosed in this Statement.

Item 6. Contracts, Arrangements, Understandings, or Relationships with Respect to Securities of the Issuer

     Other than the Voting Agreement described in Item 4, there are no contracts, arrangements, understandings or relationships (legal or otherwise) among the persons named in Item 2 and between such persons and any person with respect to any of the securities of Vastera, including but not limited to transfer or voting of any of the securities, finder’s fees, joint ventures, loan or option arrangements, puts or calls, guarantees of profits, divisions of profits or loss, or the giving or withholding of proxies.

Item 7. Materials to be Filed as Exhibits

SIGNATURE

After reasonable inquiry, and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

Date: January 18, 2005

The name, present principal occupation or employment, and the name of any corporation or other organization in which such employment is conducted, of each of the directors and executive officers of the Reporting Person is set forth below. The business address of each executive officer and director is Ford Motor Company, One American Road, Dearborn, Michigan 48126.

FORD MOTOR COMPANY

     With the exception of the following, each director and executive officer listed above in Schedule I is a citizen of the United States: